The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-30

We append the following account OF
Bishop Green's last visit to the site of the
proposed memorial, which appeared in the
CEurchman
During the occupation of the country by
the Federal army, the Episcopal residence
at Jackson, Miss, was burned, the Bishops
library and all his worldly possessions
swept away. In 1866 he fixed his home at
Sewanee. Tenn, in the shadow OF the
Church's institution there, and there he
brought his labors to close.
About three years ago Bishop Green vis-
tied the site of his former home. Bishop
Thompson was present, and thus describes
the visit
"Upon the plateau | stood with the
venerable Bishop Of Mississippi, and the
Rector OF ST. Andrews. In one place were
some trees, some broken bricks, the ruins
of cistern, traces of garden walk, and a
hedge of the Towering wild ounce, from
which the Bishop broke spray, and be-
word were the eartnworks and lf1e-pits.
The venerable Bishop seemed deeply
moved, and the Rector and myself lett him
for time to his own thoughts. Here had
been for fifteen years, his home. We were
standing upon the site of the Episcopal
residence and "St. Andrews College" of
the Diocese of Mississippi.
The land had been the gift of DR.. Mer-
Ger. of New Orleans. The house had been
built by the struggling young Diocese OF
Mississippi.
But house and college stood in the way
of the march of destiny. Nicksburg and
Grant lay TO the west, and on this peaceful
summit the cannon were planted, the drum
rolled to arms, and the victorious hosts OF
the nation surged and swelled over the
pc aceiul hcme of the good Bishop and his
college.
Would have had it otherwise? No
With the devastation around me, L stlli
could saw no | believe the venerable
man beside me, whose gray hair elew In
the cold blast, as he stood by the ruins of
his once happy hearth, would not hsve ex-
pected me to say otherwise. God rules the
ages and his great cause moves on through
dark as we'll as light, and none know this
better than these men over whose heads
have rolled the waves of loss and sorrow.
But, then, and there, ] made pledge to
myself that, if God spared me for the work
| had undertaken, would see these earth
works Ieyeled down, these rifle pits hlled,
and. once again, on this 1air summit
Bishops house. plain and humble though
IT might be, and a school where the boys
might be trained as of old, and some sim
pie chapel, where the daily prayers might
rise in intercession for all our human
blindness and sin.
All was burned, the Bishop told me, by
the hangers-on Of the national army, IN
its advance upon Vicksburg. Furniture,
library, nothing lef: but the scattered
bricks and the SCARED and war torn
ground"
The pledge made by Bishop Thompson
has been in part redeemed, for where late
| ly were the frowning earthworks-the
semblance of war and its devastationt,
there now stands the chapter-house, built
upon the site of the old and loved home OF
Bishop Green 1t had been the fond hope
of his assistant as we'll as other friends
that Bishop Green would be spared to at
tend the coming Council and once again
dwell on the spot that had been his happy
home, but his God ruled otherwise. The
| work has been we'll begun and in future
Battle Hill" will, with its "reminiscences
as the home of the first Bishop of Missis-
| sippi, be the gathering place of the min
| istry Of the Church.